A relief that my connection lasted after a disco in pre-race praccy. Drove with that feeling that at any point it would give up - even on the last lap I was thinking "don't you dare drop now!" but all good... this time!
Had a good start, getting the power down with a little wiggle that felt pretty much on the limit. Pulled slightly away from Dan but consistently. Got into a nice ryhthm that went to pot when I had to avoid a spinner coming on to the back straight. That put me off my stride and I went into the wall on the fast uphill right when I was further distracted by someone else that looked like they were about to spin out up the hill. Managed to avoid hitting him by jinking right at the last second which almost took me into the path of Dan, but he managed to get by cleanly! Sorry about that scare mate I really didn't have time to look in my mirrors at that point so didn't know you were already that close!
Had some great laps trying to catch Dan back up but I was driving a bit too hard and losing grip at the key places I needed it so couldn't get a run on him.
Unfortunately he then had coming together when lapping and I felt obliged to take my place back
My driving settled down after that as I had a 5 odd second gap so I just kept it safe and gentle on the throttle which felt a lot better out of the loose bends (mainly one onto back straight and last bend where I was previously slipping when I was keen to catch Dan
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Dunno if I'm more relieved to win, or to actually finish a race these days! Definately the latter hehe
